GDT: Devils @ Flyers 3/13/12

WOW. Guess what the top story is on NHL.com?
Hahahaha you think it would be the top story if Broduer shut out the Flyers?
So ridiculous. It takes the writers about an hour after the game to put anything on there about the Devils. 5 minutes later it's about another team beating us.

WOW. Guess what the top story is on NHL.com? Hahahaha you think it would be the top story if Broduer shut out the Flyers?So ridiculous. It takes the writers about an hour after the game to put anything on there about the Devils. 5 minutes later it's about another team beating us.

Since upsizing his pads, it seems like Marty is incorporating more butterfly into his game, and doing it effectively. It's a good crutch for a hybrid goalie whose skills have diminished accordingly with age. This might extend his career.

Yeah, pretty much. One of those nights. And the Flyers aren't slouches.

The one thing that worries me about this team come playoff time is how much they'll produce offensively...they've been shut out in 3 of the last nine games, and were nearly shutout in the Islander game. As we've also seen, they can score (3+ goals in five out of their last nine). I just can't get a good read on them...sometimes it doesn't seem like it's terribly hard to shut them down, but then they'll pop in 3 or 4 the next game. I'm really hoping the 25+ crowd of Elias, Clarkson, Parise and Kovy can keep up what they're doing come playoff time, and others can continue to sprinkle in goals here and there, but it wouldn't surprise me if the Devils went out in the first round with, say, 8 or 9 goals scored in 6 games or something like that (with Clarkson going near pointless).

Having said that, just the fact that they're GOING to the playoffs is awesome...can't have these "what if" discussions about the playoffs if they're not going!

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THE NHL MUST LOVE THE DEVILS - from who else? A RANGER fan![Mark Messier]: A big, bald attention whore with a stupid Easter Island-lookin face. - from who else? DaneykoIsGod!

Even when Marty comes back maybe Larry should put Clemmensen to be on the goal during the shootouts.Can the coach do that ? Switch the goalies 5 seconds to go in overtime? - Most priceless quote ever posted on a message board.

Martin Brodeur: THE MOST ALL-TIME WINS!, 12 straight seasons of 30+ wins, 3 Stanley Cups, 4 Vezina Trophies, and zero respect from too many so-called Devils "fans" who are either too young or too bandwagon to remember the much darker days of Sean Burke, Craig Billington, Bob Sauve, Alain Chevrier, and the talented but overwhelmed Chico Resch, among many others.

It's easy to support a great player when he's playing at his very best. It takes a true fan to support that same player during those rare moments and stretches when he's not. Babe Ruth went 0-4 some games, and sometimes Wayne Gretzky was held pointless. There may be such a thing as greatness, but no such thing as absolute perfection every single night.

#30 FOREVER!

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Why didn't Kovy stick up for Kovy? He's dropped the gloves before. He should do it again.

The bigger question is why didn't anyone "show-up".

You're seriously concerned about 'one' no-show performance at the tail end of an eight in thirteen stretch where they won five out of the last six (four against the Rangers, Isles and Flyers) and are like fifteen points ahead of a playoff spot now?

It would be nice if they scored on Bryzgalov sometime before the end of this decade, but we probably won't have to worry about that in the first round anyway.

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"The Devils have high standards, that's the difference. We have a standard to live up to every year, and a couple of teams in our area don't have the standards we do." - Pat Burns

The New Jersey Devils win Stanley Cups everywhere:-NHL record for most road wins in the playoffs - 10-1 in '95 and 10-2 in '00-NHL record for most home wins in the playoffs - 12-1 in '03

Why didn't Kovy stick up for Kovy? He's dropped the gloves before. He should do it again.

The bigger question is why didn't anyone "show-up".

Stick to jersey talk.

They're 5-2-1 so far in what looked to be a tough month. They've solidified their playoff berth. They've "showed up" a hell of lot more often than not...sometimes teams execute their gameplans better than do their opponents on any given night. Geez.

Edited by Colorado Rockies 1976, 14 March 2012 - 08:31 AM.

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THE NHL MUST LOVE THE DEVILS - from who else? A RANGER fan![Mark Messier]: A big, bald attention whore with a stupid Easter Island-lookin face. - from who else? DaneykoIsGod!

Even when Marty comes back maybe Larry should put Clemmensen to be on the goal during the shootouts.Can the coach do that ? Switch the goalies 5 seconds to go in overtime? - Most priceless quote ever posted on a message board.

Martin Brodeur: THE MOST ALL-TIME WINS!, 12 straight seasons of 30+ wins, 3 Stanley Cups, 4 Vezina Trophies, and zero respect from too many so-called Devils "fans" who are either too young or too bandwagon to remember the much darker days of Sean Burke, Craig Billington, Bob Sauve, Alain Chevrier, and the talented but overwhelmed Chico Resch, among many others.

It's easy to support a great player when he's playing at his very best. It takes a true fan to support that same player during those rare moments and stretches when he's not. Babe Ruth went 0-4 some games, and sometimes Wayne Gretzky was held pointless. There may be such a thing as greatness, but no such thing as absolute perfection every single night.

#30 FOREVER!

20 out of 1,946 njdevs.com members agree: CR1976 is the Most Knowledgable Poster of 2008! Victory is mine...oh yes, victory is mine!

The boys have played a lot of "clutch" games lately. They were due for a stinker. Last night was it. Philly did a great job of filling the passing lanes but our D really sucked. They held and held the puck and would finally just send it around the boards. On the PP they tried too hard to find Kovy instead of shooting it themselves. We're just lucky it wasn't a 6 or 7-0 game. That would've taken a lot of wind out of our sails. And we need to buck up this week. It's a tough week on the schedule.

It's more of the fact that WE as a TEAM don't let rookie punks like Couturier going around spearing one of our players, one of our All-Star players. Of course, after he spears Kovy he runs onto the bench like a fvcking bitch, but the next time he stepped on the ice, a message should have been sent. I can't stand that when we lose, we lose all intensity and let them rick roll us with cheapshots and hard hits on the boards.

Who was going to do that? The guy went to the bench. Volchenkov tried to take his head off later.

Not a good game, but the Devils have played a lot of games lately and were due for a bad one. At least Brodeur played well - something to take away.

I guess my idea of retaliation is different, if kovy is speared, I go after claudie boy. I agree the goon fighting is getting old when its so choreographed , but you still need a strong man to step into a hartnell type if they start acting up

anyway, I'm not letting one bad game swing my enthusiasm, we've beaten philly before and they're not perfect